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The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 ( H.R. 847; Pub. L. 111–347 (text) (PDF)) is a U.S. law to provide health monitoring and aid to the first responders, volunteers, and survivors of the September 11 attacks. It is named after James Zadroga, a New York Police Department officer whose death was linked to exposures from ...
Background HIV/AIDS Main article: HIV/AIDS Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease characterized by a greatly weakened or destroyed immune system, caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), which attacks the body's components of the immune system. AIDS was first identified in mid-1981, as doctors in Los Angeles and New York City noticed a series of clusters of unusual ...
amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, known until 2005 as the American Foundation for AIDS Research, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of AIDS-related public policy. amfAR is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Revenue Code section ...
MedShare is a national non-profit organization that recovers surplus medical supplies and equipment from U.S. hospitals and manufacturers and redistributes them to needy hospitals in developing countries. They process these donated materials and make them available to under-served hospitals and clinics in two ways: direct shipments to ...
The United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief ( PEPFAR) is a United States governmental initiative to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and help save the lives of those suffering from the disease. Launched by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2003, as of May 2020, PEPFAR has provided about $90 billion in cumulative funding for ...
The Nation Healthcare Security Administration ( Chinese: 国家医疗保障局 ), abbreviated as NHSA ( Chinese: 医保局) is a sub-ministry-level government agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China . NHSA primarily oversees the state-backed China Healthcare Security including general health insurance plan ...
Cordaid. Cordaid is an internationally operating value-based emergency relief and development organization, mostly working in conflict-affected countries. It is one of the biggest international development organizations in the Netherlands, with a network of hundreds of partner organizations in countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
The Global Fund is the world's largest financier of AIDS, TB, and malaria prevention, treatment, and care programs. [5] As of June 2019, the organization had disbursed more than US$41.6 billion to support these programs. [6] According to the organization, in 2018 it helped finance the distribution of 131 million insecticide-treated nets to ...